TY - GEN
T1 - Combining Design Thinking with Emerging Technologies in K-12 Education
AU - Milrad, Marcelo
AU - Herodotou, Christothea
AU - Grizioti, Marianthi
AU - Lincke, Alisa
AU - Girvan, Carina
AU - Papavlasopoulou, Sofia
AU - Shrestha, Sagun
AU - Zhang, Feiran
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - The use of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and 3D printing are amongst the EU targeted actions for supporting the digital transformation of education. Yet, despite these technologies being accessible to education stakeholders, there is a lack of concrete pedagogy and teachers’ professional development for their meaningful integration into the current educational context. Extending Design Thinking with Emerging Digital Technologies – Exten (D.T.)2 - is a European funded project aiming to use emerging technologies to enhance the pedagogical value, sustainable digitization, and potential for wide deployment of Design Thinking (DT). DT is a promising pedagogical innovation, based on interdisciplinary co-creation, that can lead to sustainable educational innovation and development of students’ 21st century skills. In this paper, we describe the main components of the proposed educational transformation as developed during the first year of Exten (D.T.)2 including the theoretical foundations of the approach, the co-creation processes for meaningful engagement of teachers with educational innovation. Moreover, we present the educational technology tools (design, extensions, architecture) that are used in the project and the evaluation approach for capturing impact on improving students’ skills and competencies.
AB - The use of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and 3D printing are amongst the EU targeted actions for supporting the digital transformation of education. Yet, despite these technologies being accessible to education stakeholders, there is a lack of concrete pedagogy and teachers’ professional development for their meaningful integration into the current educational context. Extending Design Thinking with Emerging Digital Technologies – Exten (D.T.)2 - is a European funded project aiming to use emerging technologies to enhance the pedagogical value, sustainable digitization, and potential for wide deployment of Design Thinking (DT). DT is a promising pedagogical innovation, based on interdisciplinary co-creation, that can lead to sustainable educational innovation and development of students’ 21st century skills. In this paper, we describe the main components of the proposed educational transformation as developed during the first year of Exten (D.T.)2 including the theoretical foundations of the approach, the co-creation processes for meaningful engagement of teachers with educational innovation. Moreover, we present the educational technology tools (design, extensions, architecture) that are used in the project and the evaluation approach for capturing impact on improving students’ skills and competencies.
KW - Design thinking
KW - Digital transformation
KW - Emerging digital technologies
KW - XXI century skills
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85172720447
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-42134-1_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-42134-1_2
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85172720447
SN - 9783031421334
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 15
EP - 27
BT - Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshops - 13th International Conference
A2 - Kubincová, Zuzana
A2 - Caruso, Federica
A2 - Kim, Tae-eun
A2 - Ivanova, Malinka
A2 - Lancia, Loreto
A2 - Pellegrino, Maria Angela
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 13th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, mis4TEL 2023
Y2 - 12 July 2023 through 14 July 2023
ER -